Cancel Bear vs. CBS, week 10: ‘Young Sheldon’ is sure to be renewed

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Here are CBS’ renew/cancel standings for week 10 of the 2018-19 season, and why one prequel’s existence is all but guaranteed to continue.

Show

Status

18-49 rating

Renew/Cancel Index

The Big Bang Theory

Final season

2.26

1.66

Happy Together (O)

DSW

0.88

0.28

Murphy Brown

DSW

0.89

0.29

Madam Secretary (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻

0.59

-0.01

S.W.A.T.

🐻 🐻 🐻

0.73

0.13

Criminal Minds

🐻 🐻 🐻

0.74

0.14

SEAL Team (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻

0.83

0.23

Magnum P.I.

🐻 🐻 🐻

0.88

0.28

Bull (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.81

0.21

NCIS: Los Angeles (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.89

0.29

NCIS: New Orleans (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.89

0.29

God Friended Me

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.97

0.37

MacGyver (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.71

0.42

FBI

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.07

0.47

The Neighborhood (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.10

0.50

Hawaii Five-O (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.80

0.54

Blue Bloods (F) (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

0.81

0.56

Mom

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.24

0.64

NCIS (O)

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.30

0.70

Young Sheldon

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

1.73

1.13

As “Magnum P.I” remains a tossup (for the time being), The Bear is prepared to make an easy call today, regarding CBS’ 2019-20 schedule.

“Young Sheldon” is a sure bet to be renewed for a third season. The show is the network’s second highest-rated show, by a considerable amount, behind only “The Big Bang Theory.” Since “Big Bang” is currently making its way through its last season too, the Bear can’t imagine CBS getting rid of “Young Sheldon,” at least not before seeing how it fares next year without “Big Bang” as a lead-in.

Key:

DSW

Dead Show Walking: All but officially canceled yet still airing

🐻

sure bet to be canceled by May 2019

🐻 🐻

likely to be canceled by May 2019

🐻 🐻 🐻

tossup between renewal and cancellation by May 2019

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

likely to be renewed by May 2019

🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻

sure bet to be renewed by May 2019

The Renew/Cancel Index is the amount above (or below) a replacement-level rating — i.e., the expected adults 18-49 rating of an emergency fill-in show should a series be canceled. For the 2018-19 season, replacement level is a 0.6 same-day rating in adults 18-49 for the Big 4 networks and a 0.1 for The CW. (Read more here.) The index number is taken by subtracting 0.6 (or 0.1) from a show’s average same-day rating.

Friday scripted shows (denoted with an “F” above) on the Big 4 have average ratings about 30 percent lower than those of other nights, therefore their ratings are multiplied by 1.43 (1/0.7, or 70 percent) before subtracting the replacement-level number.

Shows that have ended their seasons have their R/C Index number frozen at the point of their final episode.

(O) – Owned: All other things equal, shows owned by studios affiliated with their networks have a better shot at renewal than those from outside producers.